The 2.24-minute trailer has Kaushal in top form as an army officer leading a team to avenge the killings of his fellow comrades. Action packed and adrenalin fuelled, the trailer has a rousing background score sung by Sukhwinder Singh.

Written and directed by Aditya Dhar, Uri is based on the surgical strikes that the Indian Army’s Special Forces carried out across Line of Control (LoC) on September 29 in response to the deaths of 19 unarmed soldiers who were killed at Kashmir’s Uri basecamp on September 18, 2016, in an early morning attack by Pakistani terrorists.

Though all the actors in the film—Paresh Rawal, Yami Gautam, Kriti Kulhari—get their screen time in the trailer, it is Kaushal the video focuses on the most and he delivers.

With roles ranging from a Pakistani cop in Raazi to a careless indecisive boy in Mannmarziyaan and now a fearless and responsible military officer, Kaushal is proving his mettle as an actor with every film.

Produced by Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP Films, Uri: The Surgical Strike is slated to release on January 11, 2019.